PROBE OF BLIND SHEIK LED TO ATTA (Able Danger)

NY Post ^ | 8/24/05 | NILES LATHEM

[jimbo123]

WASHINGTON — A Pentagon secret intelligence team identified 9/11 leader Mohamed Atta through a probe of blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman — the mastermind of the first attempt to destroy the World Trade Center, it was revealed yesterday.

An outside contractor to the intelligence unit, code named Able Danger, has told congressional staffers Atta's name was discovered by a computer data-mining search of connections to Abdel-Rahman, the Muslim cleric in prison for inspiring the 1993 trade center bombing and a plot to blow up New York landmarks.

Contractor James D. Smith testified that a California researcher was later able to purchase Atta's photograph from an Islamic Web site, officials confirmed.

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"[Data analyst J.D. Smith] found Atta by linkages not to immigration issues but to the mosque system," he said. "Basically [Atta] was associating with known radical clerics."

[TVenn]

"Wasn't Clinton in Australia during 9/11?"

Yes.

Al Gore was in Austria.

Greenspan was in Europe.

[TVenn]

5:43 am ATTA and AL-OMARI checked in at US AIRWAYS counter.

5:45 am ATTA and AL-OMARI passed through airport security.

6:00 am ATTA and AL-OMARI departed on Colgan Air en route to Boston, Massachusetts.

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Consider how close these guys were to missing their flight. If they had missed their flight,the entire history of 9/11 would be different.

5:45 am ATTA and AL-OMARI passed through airport security.
Any ideas as to why the time stamp on the security camera says 5:53 am?

[kcvl]

They treated National Security as a DAMN JOKE!!!

CHELSEA HELPING IN MIDDLE EAST NEGOTIATIONS

Photograph by: Diana Walker, 1999
Secretary of Defense William Cohen, President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and National Security Advisor Sandy Berger hear, see and speak no evil.

[Calpernia]

did you see Inside 911?

They seemed to have passed through Portland Airport rather quickly. I was under the impression from the Airport clerk that he had hesitations about letting them on.

I guess he didn't actually ponder for any length of time.

[txhurl]

SOMEBODY'S telling Mother S. to come down on the jews!

[TVenn]

did you see Inside 911?

No.

[TVenn]

"I was under the impression from the Airport clerk that he had hesitations about letting them on."


http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/18/pzn.01.html

Michael Touhey took Mohamed Atta's ticket this morning. His story is one you'll only hear here. Here's Drew Griffin.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DREW GRIFFIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The 9/11 Commission would describe the dawning of September 11 as temperate and nearly cloudless. By 4:00 a.m., Michael Touhey was already at work at the U.S. Air ticket counter at the airport in Portland, Maine.

MICHAEL TOUHEY: Crystal clear blue sky. It was just a fabulous to go to work.

GRIFFIN: One hour and 43 minutes into Touhey's day, two men approached his counter rushing to catch the 6:00 flight to Boston.

TOUHEY: They had a tie and jacket on. All right? And as I'm looking at them, you know, they're holding their IDs up, and I'm looking at them. It's not nice, but I said, "Jeez, if this doesn't look like two Arab terrorists, I've never seen two Arab terrorists."

GRIFFIN (on camera): That was your...

TOUHEY: Thought.

GRIFFIN: ... first reaction?

TOUHEY: That was my thought as I'm looking at them. I'm looking at their licenses, and I'm looking -- and that thought ran through my mind.

GRIFFIN: Where did that thought go? TOUHEY: I don't know. Immediately, I felt guilty about thinking something like that. I just said, "This is awful." How -- you know, I've checked in thousands of Arabic people over the years. You know, doing the same job. Businessmen. I said, "These are just a couple of Arab business guys."

GRIFFIN (voice-over): But something about these two men was different. Touhey says the younger man, Abdul Aziz Al-Omari, could barely speak English. The other was Mohamed Atta. Touhey says he had the eyes of a killer.

TOUHEY: He did. He had the deadest eyes I've ever seen.

GRIFFIN: Setting aside his gut reaction, Touhey issued the boarding passes. The flight was leaving in 17 minutes. And Atta and Omari still had to clear security. But Atta told Touhey he wanted not only the boarding passes for the U.S. air flight to Boston, but also the passes for their connecting American Airlines flight to Los Angeles. Atta, the mastermind behind the 9/11 plan, was facing the plan's first obstacle, a gate agent with an attitude.

TOUHEY: When I just gave them the ticket, I gave them the boarding cards for the Boston flight. And he says -- he says, "Isn't this -- isn't there one-stop checking?" And I said, "No, you're connecting to American Airlines down in Boston."

GRIFFIN: Had Atta argued, he would have missed his flight. Touhey says the two men turned in a huff and hurried to the gate. Less than three hours later, Touhey was told by a co-worker that American Flight 11 had crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.

TOUHEY: I said, "Oh, my god." I said, "I put two people on that plane." And I was feeling horrible. You know?

Here I was thinking these guys were terrorists. You know? And I just had a flashback.

I said, "Now the poor bastards are dead." And then you got the word on the second plane and it was like a punch in the stomach.

GRIFFIN (on camera): You knew then that those two guys were involved?

TOUHEY: As soon as I heard it. The second I heard it. I said, "I was right. I was right."

You know, and it was just -- I don't know how you describe it, how your stomach twists and turns. You get sick to your stomach.

GRIFFIN: Still does?

TOUHEY: To this day. Not so much that -- I felt ashamed that I did not react to my instincts.

GRIFFIN (voice-over): His instinct to label the Arab men that morning as terrorists, to slow down their check and to search their bags, to possibly make the ringleader miss his flight, all of that is post-9/11 thinking. On that September morning, hassling two men simply because they were Arabs would not have been politically correct, Touhey says. His job was to get them on the flight, and he did.

Once he and other employees realized what was happening, they called the FBI. And within hours, Touhey found himself viewing this videotape of the two Arab men he had ticketed pass going through security. He told the FBI who they were. He also told them that he observed something curious on the tape.

TOUHEY: And they said, "What do you mean?" I said, "Well, these guys had on -- they were very business looking. They had on ties and jackets." And I said, "If you look at these guys, they both have like open collar, they have like dress shirts with an open collar." I said, "But that's them."

[Calpernia]

It looks like it is going to be aired again if you want to catch it:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/inside911

They interview the Portland Airport clerk that let Atta pass.

[TVenn]

I do not get that channel. Thanks for the link.It looks like the site has some more information.

[Texas Songwriter]

Rescan Peter Lances book "Coverup". Ramsey Yousef was in custody in Feb 1994. This whole story is starting to sound like that book, in terms of a timeline. This idea was apparently hatched by Yousef, though he has been interned in a subterranean cell for over 10 years.

Looks like Weldon has a plan to get the 9/11 principals to be smoked out. Soon they may start to point the fingers at each other as more and more information is dripped out.

[Texas Songwriter]

Where is Kalstrom in all of this. We know he was coopted in the Flt.800 incident.

[TVenn]

In reply #75, you posted a picture of a shirt released by the FBI.

According to the manager of the Comfort Inn that was assisting the FBI, the FBI told her they found that shirt in the dumpster at the Comfort Inn. She also stated that she handed over to the FBI the security camera footage that recorded Atta and Alomari checking in at the Comfort Inn.

Taking the time to locate a dumpster in the parking lot to hide a shirt seems a little peculiar for a man on a suicide mission, considering he is running late for his flight.

Rleasing a photo of the shirt he reportedly stashed in a dumpster at the Comfort Inn but not releasing the video of Atta checking in seems a little strange.

[Calpernia]

We have a thread here where that woman from the Comfort Inn came in and posted. She also private messaged a few of us on that thread.

I am in the middle of cooking dinner right now. When I'm back on tonight, I will try to find that thread.

If you are familiar with freeper Tadaboomtadabing (that is spelled wrong), ping him. He was on the thread with me and was messaged too.

If I could remember how to spell that freepers name, I would have pinged him here with this message.

He may have bookmarked that thread and can post it in the meantime.

[TVenn]

Where is Kalstrom in all of this

He went to the same company Freeh went to.Both rewarded for jobs well done.

1997
NEW YORK (AllPolitics, Dec. 9) -- The FBI is expected to announce Wednesday that Assistant FBI Director James Kallstrom, who came to national attention during the criminal investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800, will retire.

A 27-year veteran of the FBI, Kallstrom is leaving to take a job at MBNA America Bank, according to a law enforcement source.

[TVenn]

WILMINGTON, Del., July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- MBNA Corporation (NYSE: KRB)
announced today that Louis J. Freeh, former director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, will join the company as senior vice chairman for
Administration and will be a member of its Executive Group.

[texasbluebell]

Thank heavens that Chelsea photo at Camp David has survived!

It was the hardest thing to find for years, I had one saved which I had found on some small newspaper site, and I'm glad to see that strangecosmos has finally got hold of a copy.

That one must not disappear.

What a joke, indeed.

[mercy]

Well that would be reasonable but Specter is the CYA go-to man for DC.

[M. Thatcher]

Kallstrom is, I believe, head of the company managing the security of Indian Point nuclear plant in Peekskill, NY. My memory may be wrong but I believe he is partnered with former Clinton chief of staff Mack McLarty.

Kallston also briefly hosted one of those cable crime shows, "FBI Files," I think, in the "New Detectives" mold.

I would dearly love to see that guy get all that he has coming to him.

[mickie]

MBNA has been sold to Bank of America.
Wonder if those two will be looking for new jobs.

[TVenn]

"My memory may be wrong but I believe he is partnered with former Clinton chief of staff Mack McLarty"

Interesting. I know Mack McLarty teamed up with Henry Kissinger. All in the family, you know.

http://www.kmaglobal.com/